Software Development Engineer, EU Engagement Tech Team

Software Development Engineer, EU Engagement Tech Team

DESCRIPTION

Amazon is looking for a talented and enthusiastic Software Development Engineer to join the EU Engagement Tech team.

Software Development Engineers will be responsible for the design, development, delivery, and support of large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications and tools. This job requires you to hit the ground running and your ability to learn quickly and work on disparate and overlapping tasks that will define your success. You will be working closely with business partners, software development engineers, UI/UX designers, and product managers to build new customer-facing experiences in a fast-paced environment.

Key job responsibilities

1. Architect, design, and build large-scale digital marketing optimisation systems that power Amazon websites.
2. Own the delivery of end-to-end, full-stack solutions.
3. Make sound engineering decisions and improve our software development practices.
4. Build analytics platforms to process large volumes of traffic data, trends in marketing signals, and other key metrics.
5. Build experimentation frameworks to drive continuous testing of new marketing experiences.
6. Contribute to the team's technical vision and roadmap.

A day in the life
A SDE2 in this role is in charge of end-to-end project ownership and developing full-stack solutions ranging from building scalable software to process large volumes of data, building big-data platforms to process customer-level data, and to capture marketing signals for analytics and measurement. They work with cross-functional teams containing UI/UX designers and product/marketing managers to build new customer experiences. They contribute to the team's technical vision and roadmap by actively contributing to design and code reviews. The role is expected to implement best practices for code quality, testing, and deployment in an AWS environment (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, ECS, etc).

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems.
2. Experience (non-internship) in professional software development.
3. Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
4. 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
5. Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
2. Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.